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01L BURNER. No. 278,374. Patented May 29,1883.

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"CLEON TONDEUR, or ITHAGA, new YORK.

' OIL-BURNER.

'\ UNITED STATES'PATENT OFFICE;

srncrrrcarron forming art of Letters Patent No. 278,374, dated. May 29,1883.

i Application filed February 23,1683. (No model.) i i To all'whom t'tmay concern Be it known that I, cLEoN ToNDEUR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ithaca, Tompkins -county,New York, have invented anImproved Oil-Burner, especially adapted to use in glass-furnaces, ofwhich the following ,is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

My object is to take eithercrude oil or kero necked bottle of the otherfigures.

In the figures, dis the pipe, with faucet b,-

. i a 1 which conveys the oil fromthe barrel or other 2 5 oil-holder,and by-which the regulated flow of oil 18 conveyed to the chamber 0,which chamber has a removable cap, 01, which can be taken off i by hand,or may be blown 0E by any gas that) flows backward through theapparatus. This chamber has (shown bythe part cut away three or more)any convenient number of diaphragm s, which are perforated, and on whichare placed any suitable filtering substances or articles that may bedissolved and aid in producing heat, as rosin. These sieves areremovablethe upper one the coarsest in its apertures, the

. middle one finer, and the lowest quite small in its openings; and thischamber is funnelshaped at its lower part, and empties thereby the oilinto thepipe e, whichis provided with an upper faucet, f, and a lowerfaucet, h. The pipe c continues downward, and isjoined to the pipet' inone round yet divided pipe, which has the faucet h, with two separateinternal tubular cavities. The united pipes are made fast to thescrew-joint of the glass bottle 9. .The pipe 6 goes to the bottom of thebottle. The pipe 11 terminates at the top of the bottle.

I a By this it will be seenthatwhen gas flows 5o tle is forced upwardinto the top ofthe pipe a,

backward through the pipet' the oilin the botreachesthe chamber 0; andit theregurgitation .is violent, the gas escapes through the chamber candjcover d to the air, if the pressure is not relieved by the height ofthe column in the pipes. flow of oil as well as to collect impurities.This vessel may bemade with two mouths,

i go out of the. other month, as shown in Fig. 4; but the pipe 0'curt'e's upward, whence it curves downward, descending to the right-an-}gled' joint, by which it connects with the em larged pipe or longconversion-chamber 7r,

capped olosure,j, and at its right-hand end is fitted to the tuyere orburnenpointm. A rod,

ing it. The tuyere m is large at its left-hand end, and it tapers towardthe right-hand end to a fine point or end, where there is 'a circular ora slitted aperture, opening'into the flamecharnber t of the flattingfurnace. In the right-hand end of the burner is a tapering plug, 1',that fits the point onthe inside of the burner, and closes,'whendesirable, the aperture o. This'plug is fast to the cleaning-rod n, andthe left-hand end of theplug is made the size of the narrow part k ofthe connection to the chamber k, and is used to clean that connectionandchamber. Thechamberisfitted with cotton, broken pumice-stone, wool,or any other material thought suitable to regulate the flow of oil orthe heat of the oil in the chamber. 7

The plug 1" may be hollow, as shown in Fig. 3, and the oil or vapor ofoil escape through it into the flame-chamber t, Fig. 2. The tuyere orburner reaches inside of the furnace-wall s, or as near theflame-chamber as the volatilization of the oil may require, since, withpurified oils, it is desirable that the volatilization of the oils becompleteonreachingtheflame-chamber. With the crude oils it is necessarythat the cruder parts drip out of the aperture and fall into thebasin-hollow of the flame-chamber, where their combustion is completed.The flame-chamber is separated from the wheel-chambers or lier which maybe made large enough to hold all the oil in the pipe i and bottle gbefore it The bottle also is of use to see the.

which chamber, at its left-hand end,.has a it, passes through it for thepurpose of clean-.

by the sidewall, a, which rises a little wayabovethebasinoftheflame-chamber. Therest 6o and the pipe 6 gointo onemonth and the pipeof the flatting-furnace is constructed as usual, as ispartially indicated in Fig.2. One,' two, or any requisite number oftuyeres or burners, or duplications of the whole device, are used sideby side, as may be desirable; or, as seen in Fig. 2, the centralpipe-chamber, k, supplies one or more tuyeres on each side of itself byside pipes, and which tuyeres have cleaningrods n, with screw-threadsand packed joints j. The plugrIalsomake of platinum or refractory clay,hollow, as has been said and shown, and fitting tightly into the innersides of the tuyere, so that the volatilization of the oil shall be intoa complete vapor, and escape, not about the plug 1, but through it. Thedrip-oil, if

there should be any, shall escape by apertures- 0 0 in the tuyeres 00just below the plug,

as when I use the plug for both oil and vapor; or, the plug being solid,I use it as a feed-plug, by it opening or closing the tuyere, thatfeeding the flame-chamber faster or slower, as desirable, beingregulated by a screw-thread cut on the rod 11, which fits theburr-thread out in the cap j. The tuyere is represented in the drawingsas circular, with circular or oval aperture; but it may be made flat andwith several apertures, or otherwise shaped and varied.

At 0, Fig. 3, is seen the end of the plug r, with a circular space oropening in the tuyere m about the plug. At 0 is seen a flat tuyere, witha long or slit aperture in the plug 0', and at 0 a solid plug, r, with afour-sided aperture about the plug. The plug in all cases is made assaid above, adapted to the neck It and vhence it will be seen that byunscrewing the cap j the rod a and plug 1* are easily withdrawn out ofthe chamber 7.", bring-. ing with them cinders or other contents of thechamber k; and, by what has been said above, it is not meant that thereis any complex tuyere or complex plug. In all duplications of theapparatus thetuyere and the plug are each one and the same, the tuyerebeing unchanged in all except that the additional aperture 0 0 is madeor not, as is best; the plug is made either solid or hollow to adapt itto either crude or pure oils, thelcrude oils requiring several vents ofgas, as'indicated above,-while the pure oils escape by one vent oropening, 0, made either about or in the plug, as has been said.

The advantages and uses of my invention are apparent.

In an'oil-burning device adapted for use in glass-furnaces I claim- 1. Adevice having the combined parts a, the oilsupply pipe, the Vent andfilteringchamber a, the conveying-pipe 0, glass receptacle g, the upwardand downwardreflexed pipe 5, chamber 70, and tuyere m, operating as setforth. Y

2. The filtering and equalizing chamber 0, provided with sieves c, 0",and c, and the gas-escape cover.d, and interposed between the pipes atand e, in combination with the elongated and static-producing pipe e,whereby resistance is made to reflex flows of oil and gas, and theescape of gas is provided for when reflex action is inevitable, as setforth.

3. The combination, with each other, of the three diverse and regulatingchambers or vessels between the oil-supply 6t and the tuyere m--viz.,the capped gas-escape reservoir or cham here, the tight and transparentchamber for bottle 9, and the elongated and heat-regujlating chamber7c--the same being made and operating substantially as set forth.

4. The apertures made below and next to the mouth of the tuyere m andoperating independently of the main tuyere-apertures, where- I by thecrude, heavy-oil portion of the partiallyburned oil escapes upon theglass-furnace burning-floor t, as set forth.

5. A chamber, 70, and angular tuyere in, with internal plug, r, on therodj ,-having a neck, It, interposed between. the chamber and tuyere,

through which the plug 1' passes closely, as

shown and described.

. OLEON TOND E UR.

Witnesses: i

S. J. PARKER, WM. J. TOTTEN.

